“I don’t enjoy. I suffer from enjoying. It’s very Christian.”
-Catherine Deneuve (via magnum, photo by Raymond Depardon)
Catherine Deneuve (photo by her ex-husband, English photographer David Bailey, who described their seven-year marriage as being an exercise in ‘managing a Maserati when you’re used to a Ford’.)
Bailey on the wedding:
“The first wedding was funny. It was in England. Mick Jagger was the best man. Catherine’s English wasn’t very good. It caused a scandal because I wore jeans, and Catherine wore a black dress and smoked all through the ceremony. The priest kept saying, ‘Do you mind?’ And then they did all that nonsense about, ‘Do you take this man to be your… ’ and Catherine turned to me and said, ‘What’s he talking about?’”
Catherine Deneuve in The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967, dir. Jacques Demy)
The Morning After:
“I am frivolous. Then I feel guilty.”
-Catherine Deneuve
Catherine Deneuve on the set of The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964, dir Jacques Demy)
